Pig mobile and Kerry rolls out campaign
Sometimes when the phone rings here at Happytown™ HQ there isn’t a livid right-winger in our left ear telling us how disgusting and unpatriotic we are. Sometimes we pick up to find a real person on the other end, someone who restores our faith in the mud bog of political apathy that is Central Florida.…
Movie: White Chicks
White Chicks Length: 1 hour 45 minutes Studio: Columbia Pictures Website: http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/whitechicks/site/ Release Date: 2004-06-23 Cast: Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Rochelle Aytes, Jennifer Carpenter, Jessica Cauffiel Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans Screenwriter: Xavier Cook, Andy McElfresh, Michael Anthony Snowden Music Score: Teddy Castellucci WorkNameSort: White Chicks Our Rating: 2.00 Remember the Saturday Night Live sketch that…
Movie: The Terminal
The Terminal Length: 2 hours 8 minutes Studio: DreamWorks Pictures Website: http://www.theterminal-themovie.com/ Release Date: 2004-06-18 Cast: Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Chi McBride, Stanley Tucci, Diego Luna Director: Steven Spielberg Screenwriter: Jeff Nathanson, Sacha Gervasi WorkNameSort: The Terminal Our Rating: 3.00 It’s unreasonable to expect that every new Steven Spielberg movie be as effortlessly iconic as…
ONE FRESH STEP FOR MAN
Movie: Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space
Review – 20,000 Streets Under the Sky
Artist: Marah
Review – Street Signs
Artist: Ozomatli
Review – 20,000 Streets Under the Sky
Artist: Marah
Review – Sorry I Make You Lush
Artist: Wagon Christ
Review – Street Signs
Artist: Ozomatli
Movie: The Terminal
Our Rating: 3.00 It’s unreasonable to expect that every new Steven Spielberg movie be as effortlessly iconic as Catch Me If You Can, but The Terminal is still a disappointment. A military coup strands Eastern European tourist Tom Hanks at JFK airport, where his man-without-a-country status becomes a running annoyance to the Department of Homeland…
Review – Sorry I Make You Lush
Artist: Wagon Christ
FOUR MOORE YEARS
Movie: Fahrenheit 9/11
Knockin’ back the flapjacks
Everybody has their breakfast food of choice, and for some people it’s pancakes – maybe even specialty pancakes, like banana crunch or wheat germ or blueberry. In this town, the First Watch franchise has justly penetrated the market with its wholesome ways (they won’t stock the Weekly) and day-starters, especially the pancakes. As history goes,…
Movie: Two Brothers
Our Rating: 4.00 Director Jean-Jacques Annaud (The Bear) has learned a lesson most makers of family flicks never do: His latest animal drama is actually about the animals. Tiger sibs Sangha and Kumal receive the lion’s share (sorry) of the screen time in this heart-tugging fable, which sees them separated as cubs and made to…
Movie: White Chicks
Our Rating: 2.00 Remember the Saturday Night Live sketch that put Eddie Murphy in whiteface and sent him out on the streets to infiltrate the Caucasian conspiracy that rules the world? It’s the guiding influence in this Wayans Brothers race-reversal farce. The diff is that FBI agents Marlon and Shawn W. are meant to look…
ONE FRESH STEP FOR MAN
Movie: Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space
Review – 20,000 Streets Under the Sky
Artist: Marah
Review – Street Signs
Artist: Ozomatli
Review – Sorry I Make You Lush
Artist: Wagon Christ
FOUR MOORE YEARS
Movie: Fahrenheit 9/11
Movie: Two Brothers
Two Brothers Length: 1 hour 49 minutes Studio: Universal Pictures Website: http://www.twobrothersmovie.net/ Release Date: 2004-06-25 Cast: Guy Pearce, Freddie Highmore, Mai Anh Le, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Jean-Claude Dreyfus Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud Screenwriter: Jean-Jacques Annaud, Alain Godard WorkNameSort: Two Brothers Our Rating: 4.00 Director Jean-Jacques Annaud (The Bear) has learned a lesson most makers of family flicks…
SLOW FOOD ISN’T ABOUT SERVICE OR SNAILS
I love food. Which is the main reason that I hate food movements – raw food, macrobiotics, veganism, low-fat, low-carb, dairy-free – they all seem to constrict the world of food. The truth is, I love food, but I don’t like to obsess about it. Not the number values in it, anyway. I don’t want…
UNDERNEATH THE RUINS
Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures by Kenneth Cain, Heidi Postlewait and Andrew Thompson (Miramax Books, 320 pages, $25.95) It’s hard to keep the gag reflex at bay when faced with another memoir by someone still a decade from an AARP card. With their daddy dramas, insipid ennui and hardly marketable lives, a spate of…
RAGING BULL’S-EYE
The comedy Bullshot Crummond is a departure for The Vine Theatre in ways that go far beyond the company’s move from Bumby Avenue to the Orlando Repertory Theatre’s digs in Loch Haven Park. For the first time, the religiously motivated Vine has mounted a show that isn’t even tangentially related to spiritual concerns; in the…
TURNING TAIL
Not a big fan of cattle. Hopeless, bulging pounds of bovinity, snorting and rustling their divergent ways to their designated food-group future. It’s all a sad, smelly process, one best left to the better-looking cattle hands who enjoy that kind of thing. But it’s exactly that kind of odorous thing that I’m currently not enjoying,…
“Full Disclosure”
Everybody remembers the fateful 1980 debate between incumbent President Jimmy Carter and gung-ho challenger Ronald Reagan. You know the one: “Are you better off today,” etc., etc. etc. But do you recall that Reagan was coached on his performance by conservative commentator George F. Will – using study materials stolen from the Carter campaign? And…
HEIDI 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO
Broadcasting live sports on television comes with its share of headaches. Even in timed sports like basketball, football and hockey, the possibility of overtime lurks like a demon, baring its fangs and threatening to disrupt the programming schedule, and the commercial log. The ability to make split-second decisions separates the men from the boys, while…
Knockin’ back the flapjacks
Everybody has their breakfast food of choice, and for some people it’s pancakes – maybe even specialty pancakes, like banana crunch or wheat germ or blueberry. In this town, the First Watch franchise has justly penetrated the market with its wholesome ways (they won’t stock the Weekly) and day-starters, especially the pancakes. As history goes,…
STARDOM IN ISOLATION
One thing that’s easy to forget when listening to “world” music is that, despite the fact that the sounds may be foreign to your ears, the music is nothing but natural to those making it. (We won’t get into how obnoxiously self-important the term “world music” is for the moment.) Despite our best efforts, American…
DEPRESSION, DESPAIR AND 300 DAYS OF SUNSHINE
San Diego isn’t known for deep thoughts. Touching down on its skyscraper-surrounded airstrip, any Joe or Jane could assume that the lines of pristine sailboats, the piles of sand and the lines of palm trees are the whole of the region’s substance. It’s a sad state of affairs, really, if you’re the brooding type. When…
THE SHADOW CAMPAIGN
It’s hot; sticky, disgusting, mind-numbingly hot. The kind of dense, humid hot that makes you thank God you work in an air-conditioned office, and makes you realize wearing jeans was a mistake. I’m canvassing a cookie-cutter east Orange County neighborhood, and I’m soaked in sweat after all of 20 minutes. The two workers I’m shadowing…
THE BIG TY-KUHN
In a few months, Orlando Weekly will vacate the West Jefferson Street office we’ve called home for the last four years. It’s a nice place, formerly the ABC Liquor warehouse, but the rent’s outrageous. When we moved down here the office market was booming and the price didn’t seem bad, considering the building’s charm. Today…
THE STENCH OF SPOILED BALLOTS
In the 2000 presidential election, 1.9 million Americans cast ballots that no one counted. “Spoiled votes” is the technical term. The pile of ballots left to rot has a distinctly dark hue: About 1 million of them – half of the rejected ballots – were cast by African-Americans although black voters make up only 12…
